National Drug Control Policy

Between 1988 and 1995, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) estimates that Americans spent 57.3 billion on drugs for nonmedical purposes. 

Office of National Drug Control Policy. (2001). The economic costs of drug abuse in the United States, 1992-1998 (Publication No. NCJ-190636). Washington, DC Executive Office of the President. 

Currently, drug trafficking is a 400-billion-per-year industry in our country and represents 8% of the world s trade. According to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Americans currently spend 46— 79 billion annually on just two (of many possible) psychoactive drugs cocaine and heroin (Kari Associates, 2004). The Bureau of Justice Statistics (1999) indicates that between 60% and 83 % of the nation s correctional population have used drugs at some point in their lives, roughly twice as many as others in the U.S. population. 

Fact Sheet Methamphetamine. Rockville, Md. Office of National Drug Control Policy Information Clearinghouse, May 1999. 

M. Wdhams, J.M. Johnston, L.P. Waggoner, M. Cicoria, S.F. HaUoweU, andJ.A. Petrousky, Canine Substance Detection Operational capabilities . Presented at the Office of National Drug Control Policy Technology Symposium, 1999. 

Office of National Drug Control Policy, Juveniles and Drugs. http // www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/ drugfact/juveniles/index.html. 

White House Office of National Drug Control Policy... 

Office of National Drug Control Policy. Prescription for Danger. The Anti-Drug.com. Available online. URL http //www.theantidrug.com/ pdfs/prescription report.pdf. Posted January 2008. The report gives particular attention to increasing abuse of prescription drugs by teens. It... 

Drug Availability Steering Committee, Drug Availability Estimates in the United States, December 2002 and Office on National Drug Control Policy, National Drug Control Strategy, Feb. 2003-... 

The U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) valued the market at US 35 billion in 2000. Since that time, prices have declined and use rates have been fairly stable. See Office of National Drug Control Policy, What America s Users Spend on Illegal Drugs 1988-2000, Washington, D.C. Executive Office of the President, December 2001, p. 14. 

Finally, the Office of National Drug Control Policy has as its tasks the coordination of federal, state, and local drug control efforts, as well as the formulation of a comprehensive National Drug Control Strategy, which is outlined in an annual report. 

President George Herbert Walker Bush appoints William Bennett to head the new Office of National Drug Control Policy. He becomes the first drug czar. A cultural conservative, Bennett will emphasize efforts to make drug abuse socially unacceptable. 

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